From: Murray Sargent (murrays@exchange.microsoft.com)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 12:24:35 CDT
Just for your amusement, for the last six years (1986 - 1992) that I was
an active theoretical laser physicist, I did all my calculations on
screen using my PS Technical Word Processor. It was considerably easier
to calculate that way than doing the calculations on paper. And the
formulas could be very complicated, sometimes running into many lines. I
used an extended mathematical character set, but nowhere near as far
ranging as the current Unicode set for mathematics.
The Unicode linear format for mathematics that I'm working with now is
an outgrowth of the format I used back then to do calculations. It's
almost magical...
Murray
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